Remains of the Day: Jungle boogie

Malware gets nasty about your surfing habits, Apple may want its own answer to Kinect, and the sounds of endangered species are the new hot sounds to listen to on your iPod. The remainders for Tuesday, July 16, 2013 will let the boogie flow.

A piece of malware targeting Safari users on OS X claims that the user is being fined by the FBI for “viewing or distributing” pornography. Oh, man, that crazy dude in Florida is going to have a field day with this.

Cupertino may be looking to snap up Israeli-based Primesense, a firm that builds 3D sensors—including those used in Microsoft’s first Kinect. Then we can all be worried about our iPhones watching us—and judging us.

A week of free downloads from the App Store did good things for the acclaimed Infinity Blade II. As one of the five free games (and ten free apps) given away to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the App Store, the normally $7 title added 5.7 million new players. That success also apparently rippled over to its predecessor, the original Infinity Blade, as well as an Infinity Blade ebook and the official Infinity Blade-branded dessert topping.

Here’s a clever use for an iPod touch: a recording device to monitor endangered species. The University of Puerto Rico is using the Apple devices to listen for the sound of tropical species threatened by deforestation. One key indication? The sound of chainsaws, slowly growing louder …

Dan Moren Senior Editor

Dan has been writing about all things Apple since 2006, when he first started contributing to the MacUser blog. Since then he's covered most of the company's major product releases and reviewed every major revision of iOS. In his "copious" free time, he's usually grinding away on a novel or two.More by Dan Moren